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Blogging special sports events and storiesSun, 02 Aug 2015 23:10:48 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2Video: A visit with Whitting and some UH baseball alumnihttp://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/02/video-a-visit-with-whitting-and-some-uh-baseball-alumni/
http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/02/video-a-visit-with-whitting-and-some-uh-baseball-alumni/#commentsSun, 12 Feb 2012 06:01:35 +0000http://blog.chron.com/cougars/?p=5822The annual University of Houston baseball alumni game was on Saturday at Cougar Field and dozens of UH baseball alumni showed up for the occasion, including several that have been or are currently in the major leagues or in a team’s minor league system.

Here’s some video of a brief visit with UH coach Todd Whitting, former UH pitcher Michael Goodnight (Class A Carolina Mudcats in the Cleveland Indians system), former UH outfielder Caleb Ramsey (Class A Auburn Doubledays in the Washington Nationals system) and former UH pitcher and Cy Young Award winner Doug Drabek (formerly of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros, among others).

Not pictured in the video is new Houston Astros catcher and former Cougar backstop Chris Snyder, who had this to say of his following of UH baseball:

“It’s been a good change with Todd Whitting taking on as head coach,” Snyder said. “I know he’s gained a large following and is off to a good start with the program.”

The 2012 Cougars defeated the alumni squad 4-0 in the seven-inning contest on Saturday at Cougar Field.

This year’s Cougars begin their 2012 season at 7 p.m. on Friday when they take on Delaware at Cougar Field. The first eight games of the season are at home: a series vs. Delaware (Friday-Sunday), a series vs. Texas State (Feb. 24-26) and a pair of Tuesday games against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Feb. 21) and the Silver Glove Series opener against Rice (Feb. 28).

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The Cougars men’s hoops team took its fourth straight defeat on Saturday, falling 72-48 to Tulsa at the Reynolds Center.

Houston put together one of its better defensive efforts in the first half, limiting the Golden Hurricane to just 26 points and the Cougars were knotted with Tulsa 30-30 at the first media timeout of the second half with 15:13 remaining. But UH (11-13, 3-8 Conference USA) went into an offensive funk and Tulsa (15-11, 8-3) blew the game open with a 19-2 run to take a commanding 49-32 lead. The Golden Hurricane never looked back.

The good news for Houston is that the Cougars don’t have a mid-week game upcoming, so they’ll have some time to lick their wounds. The bad news is when they return to the court, they’ll do so against C-USA’s leader, Southern Mississippi (21-4, 8-2).